June 2020 | Uncommon Ground

COVID-19 Transforms Attitudes Towards ‘Low-Skilled’ Immigration

June 29, 2020 Jade MacRury 0

The pressures of the COVID-19 pandemic have drastically changed the British public’s perception of ‘low-skilled’ immigration.

Sebastian Junger’s ‘Tribe’: Surrounded By Strangers

June 26, 2020 Eric Brooks 0

Sebastian Junger argues in ‘Tribe’ that our psychological need for a sense of community is going unfulfilled in modern society.

Hayley Cropper – Coronation Street’s Trojan Horse

June 25, 2020 Rachel Bosenterfer 3

How Hayley Cropper – a woman playing a man playing a woman – softened us all up for the rise of the transgender movement.

How to Have (a) Sex: The Appropriation of Cultural Practices to Fit Postmodernism

June 24, 2020 Donovan Cleckley 0

The claim that indigenous cultures didn’t understand the difference between male and female is pure sleight-of-hand on the part of postmodern ‘thinkers’.

Transgenderism and the Difference Between Behaviour and Identity

June 23, 2020 Janice Williams 2

The concept of an identity as an unchosen, inherent characteristic is valuable, especially for oppressed groups. Transgenderism does not meet the criteria.

Daniel Radcliffe and What He Did Not Name

June 19, 2020 Eileen Blair 4

Daniel Radcliffe’s denunciation of J.K. Rowling fails to address her ideas, condemn abuse, or even mention the people apparently being erased by ‘women’.

NWCI Disappoints Over J.K. Rowling Controversy

June 18, 2020 Anna Morvern 4

As Fine Gael proposes that children be able to change legal sex, the National Women’s Council of Ireland seems reluctant to acknowledge the dissenters.

Emma Watson Is the Face of Hermione Granger, Without the Intellect

June 17, 2020 L Beatrice 1

Opposing J.K. Rowling’s position is fine – but that the response consists of purely incoherent sound bites should worry us all.

J.J. Barnes Supports J.K Rowling by Stepping in to Celebrate Children’s Drawings

June 16, 2020 Andreia Nobre 2

After facing backlash from transactivists, J.K. Rowling took some time off Twitter. J. J. Barnes stood up to fill in for her on #TheIckabog

“Man, Where Is Your Part?”: Sex and Suffrage

June 15, 2020 Donovan Cleckley 0

In the history of the struggle for women’s suffrage, the contributions of men with gender dysphoria are conspicuously lacking.

Month: June 2020

COVID-19 Transforms Attitudes Towards ‘Low-Skilled’ Immigration

Sebastian Junger’s ‘Tribe’: Surrounded By Strangers

Hayley Cropper – Coronation Street’s Trojan Horse

How to Have (a) Sex: The Appropriation of Cultural Practices to Fit Postmodernism

Transgenderism and the Difference Between Behaviour and Identity

Daniel Radcliffe and What He Did Not Name

NWCI Disappoints Over J.K. Rowling Controversy

Emma Watson Is the Face of Hermione Granger, Without the Intellect

J.J. Barnes Supports J.K Rowling by Stepping in to Celebrate Children’s Drawings

“Man, Where Is Your Part?”: Sex and Suffrage

What Does Jordan Peterson’s Enforced Monogamy Actually Look Like? | Beatrice Louis

For a New Left | Dan Fisher

The Spread of Anti-Christian Hatred in Egypt | Tara Abhasakun

Cults and Terrorism: Can We Establish Parallels Between Noxious Belief Systems? | Sarah Mills

The Need for an Expanded Theory of Mind in an Era of Increasing Polarisation | Angelos Sofocleous